Smart city Departmental project of the Ministry of Construction

Main article: Smart city: development in Russia

The Smart City urban digitalization project has been implemented in Russia since 2018 as part of the Housing and Urban Environment national project and the Digital Economy national program.

The Smart City project is aimed at increasing the competitiveness of Russian cities, creating an effective urban management system, creating safe and comfortable living conditions for citizens and is based on 5 key principles:

• targeting the individual;
• manufacturability of urban infrastructure;
• improving the quality of urban resource management;
• a comfortable and safe environment;
• emphasis on economic efficiency, including the service component of the urban environment.

The main tool for implementing these principles is the widespread introduction of advanced digital and engineering solutions in urban and communal infrastructure.

The goal of Smart City is not only to digitally transform and automate processes, but also to comprehensively increase the efficiency of urban infrastructure.

The targets recorded in the project passport by 2024 are:

• 60% of urban residents over the age of 14 have the opportunity to participate using digital tools in urban development decision-making
• + 15% increase in the share of management companies and resource-supplying enterprises using automated dispatching systems
• translation of information in the spheres of housing and communal services, improvement, urban planning and architecture into a machine-readable form,
• increased number of apartment buildings connected to automated metering systems of utility resources.

Digital City Project

Main article: Digital city (project for digitalization of cities in Russia)

2022

The Ministry of Construction will increase funding for smart cities more than 13 billion rubles

In early June 2022, it became known about the decision of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation to increase the amount of funding for its Smart City project. Initially, it was planned to spend about 13 billion rubles on it in the period from 2018 to 2024, allocating more than 2 billion rubles a year.

According to Vedomosti, the intentions of the Ministry of Construction to attract additional funds to the departmental project are associated with the update of the Smart City standard in May 2022. Expanding the list of mandatory technologies will require an increase in funding by at least 50%, the newspaper's source said.

13 billion rubles is not enough. Ministry of Construction will increase funding for smart cities

According to the publication of the publication, the Smart City standard is a framework document that determines the implementation of measures aimed at the digital transformation of the urban economy and the management system. The first version of this standard appeared back in 2018 and included only eight directions. In the new standard, approved in May 2022, the number of directions was expanded.

The approved standard has been updated "taking into account modern technological and digital solutions," says Nikolai Pozhidaev, President of Sitronics Group. New indicators directly affect the comfort of the urban environment and the emergence of several levels of assessment of its quality - municipal and regional, he noted.

Шаблон:Quote 'The document has several dozen thematic blocks in various sectors of urban economy - from the urban environment to education and healthcare. It also affects some aspects related to transport, - said Pozhidaev. In his opinion, taking into account the expansion of the list of indicators of digitalization of urban economy within the framework of the standard, it is obvious that it is necessary to provide for an increase in funding.^[1]

Smart City Standard Approved

On May 18, 2022, the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation announced the approval of the smart city standard. It included 18 thematic blocks - in addition to the already existing sections on the digitalization of city services, there were blocks related to innovations in the social sphere, including in education and health care. Read more here.

Inclusion in Sitronics Group Workgroup

Sitronics Group on January 12, 2022 announced the inclusion of the Ministry of Construction of Russia in the Smart City working group. Read more here.

2020

Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation approved the concept of smart cities

At the end of December 2020, the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation approved the concept of smart cities. As noted in the department, the document contributes to the formation of a single conceptual space through the consolidation of key terms, explains the main advantages of a smart city for residents, business and the state, and also helps to determine the sequence of stages of digitalization.

The Smart City project by the end of December 2020 is being implemented in 209 cities of Russia. The concept should become a common document with which you can check with the development of digitalization programs and the introduction of technologies in various spheres of urban economy. Among the basic principles of the concept, the city's focus on human needs, increasing the availability of services and services, and the priority of long-term solutions in choosing a strategy stand out.

Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation approved the concept of smart cities

The document draws attention to the need to interconnect the activities of national projects and federal programs. It was prepared taking into account international experience, current challenges and current trends, the Ministry of Construction said in a statement.

According to the deputy head of the Ministry of Construction of Russia Maxim Egorov, local governments need help with prioritizing the stages of technology introduction. The document just solves these problems, explains the architecture of smart cities and clearly shows what problems of residents and businesses can be solved.

Each of the participants in the departmental project is already implementing measures in accordance with the principles of the Smart City project, all of them focus on their actions on residents, try to introduce the best available technologies, and constantly improve the quality of management, comfort of services and services. In the concept, we fixed these principles, as well as the directions in which smart cities are developing, - said Egorov.[2]

The Ministry of Construction presented the rules for granting the regions a subsidy for Smart City

At the end of April 2020, the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation presented the rules for granting the regions a subsidy for Smart City. The corresponding draft decree of the Government of the Russian Federation - "On the approval of the rules for the provision of state support funds from the federal budget to the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to reward the winners of the competition for the best projects to transform priority sectors of the economy and social sphere based on the introduction of domestic products into the urban economy, services and platform solutions created on the basis of digital technologies "- published on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

The Ministry of Construction announced the need to provide targeted financial support to the best smart cities projects on a competitive basis. The winners will receive state support in order to implement projects to transform priority sectors of the economy and social sphere on the basis of the introduction of domestic products, services and platform solutions created on the basis of digital technologies into the urban economy.

The Ministry of Construction notes that the introduction of smart city solutions requires significant organizational and financial costs from regional and municipal authorities with a high level of technological risks

It is assumed that the money will be allocated for future projects that have not yet been implemented, or projects that have already been implemented since January 1 of the year when the competition takes place will be compensated.

The Federal Commission, which will determine the best projects, is proposed to be formed with the participation of representatives of federal executive bodies, individual experts on the digitalization of urban economy.

The Ministry of Construction will be entrusted with monitoring the targeted use of funds and taking measures of responsibility in identifying violations, up to the return of the funds received.

The agency also announced the need to create methodological and organizational foundations for the formation of the Smart City ecosystem, including conducting an IQ assessment for cities and introducing replicated technologies for digitalizing urban economy using the Smart City Solutions Bank resource^[3]

2019

Guidelines for Financing Smart City Projects

In April 2019, methodological guidelines for financing Smart City projects appeared, the standard of which was approved by the Ministry of Construction in March 2019. Thus, part of the funds intended for the implementation of the Housing and Urban Environment national project can be aimed at digitalizing cities.

Within the framework of the Smart City projects, it is planned to introduce several basic areas, including the creation of a single intellectual center for urban management, the introduction of digital platforms for involving residents in the creation of a convenient metropolis, the introduction of systems for intelligent accounting of communal resources, public safety, etc. Most of these components are planned to be implemented by 2024 throughout the Russian Federation.

19 Russian pilot cities of the Smart City project have been identified

On March 19, 2019, it became known about the signing of a trilateral agreement between the Ministry of Construction of Russia, entities and cities on the implementation of the Smart City project. The agreement was signed by 19 cities from 11 regions of the country. This was announced by Vladimir Yakushev, Minister of Construction, Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation.

The project pilots included, Kaluga,, Veliky Novgorod,, Perm,, and Ryazan Stavropol Ulyanovsk Chelyabinsk Cheboksary others. Pilot cities undertake obligations not only to fulfill the standard of the "smart city" approved by the Ministry of Construction ahead of schedule, but also Russia to implement a set of additional measures in accordance with road maps developed and approved with the participation of independent experts and specialists of the ministry.

We worked on the standard for a long time before approving this document, and as a result we settled on the most important events in the field of digitalization of cities, the implementation of which we consider necessary for all project participants. The standard will allow cities to systematize digitalization processes, and the Smart City Solutions Bank will not waste time developing existing services. At the same time, as early as March 2019, there are pilot cities ready to take on additional obligations. We support such initiatives, but we will closely monitor their implementation.

The departmental project "Smart City" since 2019 has become mandatory within the framework of two national projects at once - "Housing and Urban Environment" and "Digital Economy" Specific effects that are planned to be achieved as a result of the project:

1. Increase the efficiency of urban infrastructure management, reduce accidents and the level of losses on utility networks
2. Increase the efficiency of municipal tax collection, increase the volume of accruals and fees
3. Improving the efficiency of urban transport systems, introducing a single pass for all types of public transport
4. Increase satisfaction with the quality of life in the city
5. Reducing the number of incidents of violations of public safety
6. Predictability and manageability of urban infrastructure - reducing the number of emergencies
7. Ensuring transparency and openness of urban economy data, relevance, relevance, analyzability and information management in urban, regional sections
8. Reducing the costs of municipal and regional budgets for ineffective development of information systems^[4] the^[5]

The head of the Ministry of Construction promised Russian cities zones without Wi-Fi and cellular communication

In a few years, special public spaces will appear in Russian cities without and Wi-Fi cellular communication, where people can come and just communicate. Such a forecast at the Smart City forum To Kaluga in March 2019 was announced by the head, Ministry of Construction Vladimir Yakushev writes "."Interfax

Soon there should be zones where there will be no wai-fai or anything else and people can just come and communicate. In three or four years, in five - for sure. I think such zones will be very popular, because communication begins to disappear, "Yakushev said. According to the minister, global digitalization "has the opposite side." "Digital systems are with us all the time. We need a balance, "the head of the Ministry of Construction is convinced

Inclusion of the Softline ASUDD implementation project in Novosibirsk in the bank of solutions of the Smart City project

The project to introduce the Traffic SL automated traffic management system in Novosibirsk was included in the Bank for Solutions of the Smart City Urban Digitalization Project, which is being implemented by the Russian Ministry of Construction . This was reported on March 20, 2019 by Softline, the developer of ASUDD. Read more here.

Approval of applications from 7 cities for inclusion in pilots for Smart City

On March 7, 2019, it became known that applications, Kaluga,, Obninsk Nizhny Novgorod Sarova,, Perm Bereznikov and Satka on the inclusion in the list of pilot cities for the departmental project "" Smart city were approved. Ministry of Construction Russia Agreements on the implementation of the project will be signed by the end of March. This was announced by the Deputy Minister constructions housing and communal services of the Russian Federation. Andrei Chibis

Pilot cities will become sites for testing advanced digital and engineering solutions, organizational and methodological approaches and legal models used for digital transformation in the field of urban economy.

41 cities from 27 regions submitted applications to participate in the project as pilots.

After we assessed the first wave of applications, it became obvious that not all applicants are able to fulfill the tasks that have been set, so it was decided to conclude agreements with the regions and municipalities on the territory of which pilot projects will be implemented. On March 7, 2019, we approved seven applications from four regions.

Among the main requirements for pilot cities is the "roadmap" (or its project) for the integrated digitalization of urban economy. At the same time, the pilot project map should include not only standard measures, but also additional ones formulated by the municipality on the basis of an analysis of the most pressing problems. The application is considered within ten working days from the date of its receipt, after approval between the Ministry of Construction of Russia, the constituent entity of the Russian Federation and the city, an agreement is concluded on the implementation of the pilot project^[6]

Minstroy approved the standard of the federal project "smart city"

On February 4, 2019, the Ministry of Construction of Russia approved the standard of the federal project "Smart City," most of the measures of which are planned to be implemented in 2024. This is stated in the document presented on the website of the department.

The measures specified in the Smart City standard are provided for implementation in settlements with a population of more than 100 thousand people and settlements that are administrative centers of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and can also be implemented in settlements with a population of less than 100 thousand people, - reported on the website of the Ministry of Construction.

In March 2019, the Ministry of Construction of Russia approved the basic standard of the Smart City project

The list of mandatory requirements for "smart cities" includes the tasks of creating an intelligent city management center, a digital platform for citizens to solve urban planning issues by analogy with the "Active Citizen" platform, "smart" housing and communal services, including intelligent accounting of resources and the installation of "smart" meters, the introduction of energy efficient urban lighting, as well as facial recognition system and systems for automated control over the work of road services and communal equipment.

The first step will be the introduction of digital platforms and services to involve citizens in the management of urban processes, which should work in each region of the country in 2020.

Almost 40 cities will become pilot sites for the implementation of the Smart City project. The project is aimed at introducing a comfortable and safe urban environment in Russian cities, creating innovative infrastructure and digitalization. To implement the "smart city" standard, the Ministry of Construction has formed an open base of technologies and developments - the "Smart City Solutions Bank," which hosts projects that have already proven their effectiveness and can be replicated.^[7]

2018

The departmental project of the Ministry of Construction "Smart City" has been approved. Planned 13 billion rubles. for 6 years

At the end of October 2018, by order of the Minister of Construction, Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation Vladimir Yakushev, the departmental project of the Ministry of Construction of Russia "Smart City" was approved. According to D-Russia.ru^[8] from^[9]a total of 13 billion rubles are planned to be spent on it from the federal budget by the end of 2024.

It is planned to spend 13 billion rubles on the Smart City project of the Ministry of Construction.

The bulk of these funds (12 billion rubles, 2 billion rubles each year starting in 2019) will go to the implementation of the most promising replicated digitalization projects of the urban economy.

100 million rubles. it is planned to allocate in 2019 to create a methodological and organizational framework for the formation of the Smart City ecosystem, including conducting an IQ assessment for cities.

Starting from 2020, funds will also be allocated from the federal budget (only 900 million rubles) for the implementation of replicated digital and engineering solutions to increase the efficiency of the urban economy ("Smart City") using the resource "Smart City Solutions Bank."

It was reported that the Smart City project will be implemented within the framework of two national projects - Digital Economy and Housing and Urban Environment.

Among the target indicators of the project are the translation of information in the fields of housing and communal services, landscaping, urban planning and architecture into a machine-readable form, the creation of digital tools for the participation of residents in decision-making on urban development issues, an increase in the share of management companies and resource-supplying enterprises using automated dispatch systems, an increase in the number of apartment buildings connected to automated metering systems for communal resources.

The project fixed both the strategic goal of the transition to intelligent management of urban resources and services, and specific solutions that allow it to be achieved. In addition to the passport of the departmental project, a methodology for launching the project in the regions and municipalities has been developed, in the near future we will hold several training events for our colleagues. Let me remind you that the Smart City Solutions Bank is already operating - this is an open database of the best technologies and solutions in the field of urban economy, "said Andrei Chibis, Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation.

Ministry of Construction plans to create an IQ rating of cities based on innovative criteria

The Ministry of Construction plans to develop and approve a new rating IQ ("intelligence index") of cities by mid-2019. This was stated by the deputy head of the department Andrei Chibis, the TASS Information Agency of Russia wrote in July 2018. The methodology of the future rating is planned to be published for public discussion at the end of 2018, Chibis added.

The Ministry of Construction plans to make the future "top IQ cities" international, the official said. "This will allow our colleagues from other countries to see the pain points that are," explained the deputy head of the Ministry of Construction.

Also, a number of innovative criteria will be added to the basis of the rating. "The approach that is elected is not technological. All the approaches that are in the world today are access to broadband Internet, this is the number of sensors, meters, etc. But wait! Let's measure the effect of all these things. And, opening the veil, we are trying to twist such indicators as the percentage of high school students or children who get to educational institutions on their own, "explained Andrei Chibis.

Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Construction understands the degree of application of digital solutions in the field of housing and communal services and urban infrastructure by "IQ of cities." Administrations of municipalities with higher "IQ" planned to allocate more funds from the federal budget for the development of the urban environment.

The Ministry of Construction and Rostelecom are striving to include the direction of Smart Cities in the Digital Economy program

The Ministry of Construction of Russia and Rostelecom signed a Cooperation Agreement in June 2018. The document was signed by Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Russia Andrei Chibis and Vice President for Strategic Initiatives of Rostelecom Glazkov Boris. The signing ceremony took place at the conference "Digital Industry of Industrial Russia-2018" (TSIPR) in Innopolis.

The subject of the Agreement is the interaction of the parties in the areas of development and introduction of digital technologies in the organization of urban space and management of urban engineering infrastructure, the growth of the efficiency of the provision of utilities, the modernization of urban environment facilities and the implementation of improvement measures to increase the level of comfort of living and the quality of service to citizens.

The Ministry of Construction of Russia and Rostelecom jointly initiate the inclusion of the Smart City direction in the national program Digital Economy of the Russian Federation. "Rostelecom" is developing a draft "road map" of the direction with the participation of the Ministry of Construction of Russia and its expert bodies. The document is scheduled to be submitted in July 2018.

The Ministry of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities of the Russian Federation and Rostelecom are developing an open Internet platform "Knowledge Base of Smart Cities." It will accumulate the best Russian experience, practical - technical, financial, regulatory and organizational solutions that have already been implemented by municipalities. The resource will also allow analyzing the experience of foreign Smart Cities projects and adapting it for Russian conditions.

"Digitalization of the urban economy and increasing the efficiency of household infrastructure through the introduction of modern technologies are the most important tasks of the housing and communal services development strategy. The Smart City project has already become a platform for cooperation between all interested authorities, competent business representatives and experts - on the basis of our working group, a specific plan for the digitalization of urban economy has been developed, which has been widely discussed and supported by professionals. Thanks to our cooperation with Rostelecom, the Bank of Smart Technologies has earned, 24 pilot municipalities have been selected, new solutions will be tested on the territory of which, and I am sure that a number of Smart Cities will appear in our country soon, "said Andrei Chibis, Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities of Russia.

18 pilot cities have been identified for the implementation of the Smart City project

The final list of pilot cities for the implementation of the Smart City priority project includes 18 cities from 15 regions. The head of the Ministry of Construction Mikhail Men told about this in April 2018. The list includes both "millionaires" and cities with a population of less than 100 thousand people:

• Voronezh,
• Yekaterinburg,
• Novouralsk (Sverdlovsk region),
• Novosibirsk,
• Ufa,
• Perm,
• Veliky Novgorod,
• Evpatoria ( Republic of Crimea),
• Izhevsk (Udmurtia),
• Glazov (Udmurtia),
• Sarapul (Udmurtia),
• Togliatti (Samara region),
• Sarov (Nizhny Novgorod region),
• Elabuga (Tatarstan),
• Kotovsk (Tambov region),
• Magas (Ingushetia),
• Satka (Chelyabinsk region),
• Sosnovy Bor (Leningrad Region)^[10]

The amount of project financing from the budget was estimated at 100 billion rubles. until 2024. However, Mikhail Men found it difficult to name the total amount, noting only that the sources of funding for its implementation are "absolutely different." 'I don't know where that figure came from. Probably, these are collected data from all departments. If you add everything up, maybe it will work out, "he suggested.

Earlier it was reported that the priority project "Smart City" is included in the state program "Digital Economy." The technological solutions planned for implementation in pilot cities will belong to six key blocks. Among them:

• introduction of "smart" housing and communal services,
• the formation of an environment that is accessible, comfortable and safe for the health of citizens,
• creation of innovative urban infrastructure,
• digitalization of construction,
• digitalization of territorial planning,
• development of urban transport systems.

Mikhail Men noted that within the framework of this program by 2024, for example, individual metering devices will be installed in 70% of apartments, and, in general, about 50 million people will live in smart cities by this time. "

The Ministry of Construction plans to introduce the Smart City direction into the priority project Housing and Utilities and Urban Environment

At the beginning of 2018, the Ministry of Construction of Russia submitted to the Russian government an application to change the priority project "Housing and Communal Services and Urban Environment" - according to the proposal of the department, the project should be expanded with a new direction - "Smart City," the website of the Ministry of Construction reported.

targets of the new direction may include the creation of an online bank of solutions and technologies"smart city, "creating tools to improve the quality of urban resource management, including through greater involvement in key decision-making by residents", - said on February 22, the Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Russia Mikhail Men at a departmental meeting on this issue^[11] Housing and Public ^[12]

According to the minister, the indicators of "smart cities" adopted by the Economic Commission for Europe include the quality and availability of utilities, innovative infrastructure, a safe and comfortable environment. The modernization of communal infrastructure, landscaping and increasing the efficiency of the entire urban economy should be synchronized, so the working group recommended including a smart city in the priority issue and direction, Men believes.

The draft amendments to the passport of the priority project was prepared on the basis of the recommendations of the Smart City working group of the Ministry of Construction of Russia. The proposal was to be submitted to the next meeting of the project committee. The working group is headed at that time by Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Communal Services Andrei Chibis.

The website of the Ministry of Construction notes that the working group includes experts on "increasing the intelligence of cities, spatial development and increasing the efficiency of urban infrastructure and developers of the most modern technologies in the field of urban development."

2016

Memorandum with Japan on participation in the creation of "smart cities" in Russia

The Ministry of Construction of Russia and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan prepared a memorandum of cooperation in the field of improving the urban environment in December 2016. Writes about this "Rossiyskaya Gazeta." Voronezh and Vladivostok were chosen as sites for pilot projects.

In particular, it is planned to develop the territory of the international airport in Voronezh. Other projects include the construction of a waste recycling plant and the fight against traffic jams using smart traffic lights. The work of the latter will be based on Japanese technology, which allows you to regulate movement online based on the analysis of the current transport flow.

Another priority area of ​ ​ cooperation is the organization of innovative urban planning. The project is supposed to attract specialists from the world famous architectural bureau Nikken Sekkei. The main idea is to plan dense and high-rise urban development as close as possible to large transport hubs. We are talking about housing, shopping malls and public and business centers. With this approach, users of public transport will be able to quickly get to the facilities they need.

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